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On the left, the American DVD<\/a>. On the right, the Canadian DVD<\/a>. I actually don\u2019t mind the French bits on the front cover. But I really, really don\u2019t like the way the DVD cover\u2019s spine features two<\/i> versions of the title, which means it features the Star Wars<\/i> logo twice<\/i>. This bugs me, because the Canadian DVDs for Episodes I, II, IV, V and VI all feature the Star Wars<\/i> logo only once<\/i>, like they\u2019re supposed to. So now, when I put the DVD<\/a> for Episode III<\/a> on the shelf between the other episodes, it will stand out, painfully, from the rest. (If I had a digital camera, I\u2019d take a picture.)<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s kinda like how the first two Harry Potter<\/a> movies were released in paper cases, and the third movie was released in a plastic case. Put the three movies together \u2014 and you can<\/i> buy them in a boxed set \u2014 and they don\u2019t look quite like they belong together.<\/p>\n

But bilingual DVD packaging in general is an old pet peeve of mine. I don\u2019t like my DVDs to look like cereal boxes, and sometimes the English and French titles are so similar, so identical even, that you wonder what the point of it all is supposed to be.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s bad enough that the spine for a DVD like Star Trek Generations<\/a><\/i> (1994; my comments<\/a>) has to make room for two logos just so it can also present the French title Star Trek G\u00e9n\u00e9rations<\/i>, with the accents. But when the spine for a DVD like Belle de Jour<\/a><\/i> (1968) includes the French title twice<\/i>, that\u2019s just silly.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t mind if the French was all on one side and the English all on the other. Indeed, some distributors do use two-sided covers \u2014 but the only difference between them is that, on one side, the French is on the right and the English is on the left, and on the other side, the English is on the right and the French is on the left. Which, when you think about it, is even stupider. They put in all that extra work, and there is no improvement whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Anyway, due to a very busy and hectic personal and professional life right now, I haven\u2019t had time to sample anything on this DVD, except for about half of the audio commentary. So I can\u2019t comment on the disc\u2019s actual content just yet \u2014 except to say that I am very, very intrigued that producer Rick McCallum confirms what many Star Wars<\/i> fans have suspected: namely, in the \u201copera\u201d scene where Palpatine tells Anakin the story of the Sith lord who learned how to create life, he is<\/i> revealing Anakin\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n

More later, no doubt!<\/p>\n

NOV 2 UPDATE: It also dawns on me that this film came out six months ago, when my wife was not yet pregnant with twins<\/a>; so the scenes where Anakin and Amidala discuss their impending family come across a bit differently to me, now. But I am even more convinced than ever that it is utterly ridiculous that the Galactic Republic, with all its fancy-schmancy midichlorian-manipulating technology, would have had no way to calculate the number of fetuses in Amidala\u2019s womb. And that\u2019s before we consider whether Anakin should have been able to \u201csense\u201d his offspring.<\/p>\n

NOV 6 UPDATE: Finally finished watching the extras. There is so much exposition and stating of the obvious in Lucas\u2019s scripts, it figures that most of the commentary is similarly obvious and expository. Characters keep explaining what\u2019s going on; Lucas and company keep explaining what the characters are explaining.<\/p>\n

FWIW, the weirdest thing I\u2019ve learned from the DVD is that the volcanic-planet scenes were based on footage of eruptions on Mt. Etna that were shot by Ron Fricke<\/a>, the cinematographer on Koyaanisqatsi<\/a><\/i> (1983) and the director of Baraka<\/a><\/i> (1992).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"